Louis Stanton Auchincloss (/ˈɔːkɪŋklɒs/; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)[1] was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist.

[2][3] He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee,[4] the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.

Adele was an artist, environmentalist and later became a deputy administrator of the New York City Parks and Recreation Department.

[1] On January 26, 2010, Auchincloss died from complications of a stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

"[19] Once, while attending Yale, he waved a sunflower (the symbol of Republican Alfred Landon) at President Roosevelt's passing motorcade.

Auchincloss wrote conservative articles in Virginia Law Review, which have been described as expressing "a nostalgic and romantic idealism".

[21] However, he voted for Democrat Bill Clinton explaining, "I think we’re moving dangerously into a have and have not situation...for the first time in 150 years the rich are sneering at the poor.

Composer Paul Reif adapted Portrait in Brownstone into an opera upon which he was working at the time of his death;[29] it has remained unperformed.